Jericho Cane
by Uncanny AntmanThe End of Days…seen through the eyes of an ex-cop who has lost everything…wife, daughter, and faith.
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(45 votes, average: 8.58 out of 10, rated)
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Original film name: End of Days.
New film name: Jericho Cane.
Film studio name: Universal.
Edit crew name: Uncanny Antman.
Date Original Film Was Released: 1999
Date Edit Was Released: July 2008
Original Runtime: 2h2m
New Runtime: 1h30m
Your intention for this fan edit: Apart from just simply wanting to tighten up the pacing, I felt that the story worked more effectively when revealed via Jericho’s experiences. Rather than have the entire back-story spelled out to us in the first ten minutes, we learn what is going on as Jericho learns it. I also wanted to heighten the focus on Jericho’s spiritual journey, such as it is. Also, by removing the early Cult scenes, the film deceptively starts off as a more typical Arnold Schwarzenegger action film, only to transform into a supernatural thriller as we progress.
Your way to achieve your intention: Primarily, the removal of any early scenes featuring Christine, including her birth. We do not meet her until Jericho does. The subsequent exposition fills in all the details that we need.
Cuts removed/added/extended:
- Numerous snips and alterations, some of the more noticeable changes being…
- Removed the early scenes involving the Cult.
- Removed The Albino.
- Moved the scene of “The Man” being possessed to later in the film so that when Jericho is protecting him at the beginning, he is still just a regular guy. Why would Satan need to hire Schwarzenegger as a bodyguard? At one point, Father Kovack mentions that the “man” (the person that Satan was to inhabit) was destined, just as Christine was…so the theory stands that Thomas Aquinas was trying to kill the vessel before he was taken over. Otherwise, what’s with thinking he could just stop Satan with a bullet?
- Trimmed the possession sequence, specifically removing the transparent “Creature” skating around town.
- Removed the insultingly stupid fake scare of the cat in the refrigerator.
- Removed all scenes involving Christine up until Jericho and Chicago locate her.
- Removed most of the moments of supposed levity involving The Man. (The bus hitting the kid, “Don’t fuck up the coat.” et cetera.)
- Removed The Man pissing oil, or whatever that crap is. We’ve already seen him blow up a restaurant at will, so why the need for this ridiculousness? Also removed shots of Chicago either in or next to van before explosion…when he shows up at Jericho’s apartment later, it should be believable that he survived. Which it is not in the theatrical cut.
- Removed Mabel beating the shit out of Jericho. I mean what the hell? …is she supposed to be a demon or something? If she is, it’s oddly out of context with the rest of the film. And if she isn’t, what’s the deal with her claws and Arnie-bashing abilities?
- Removed The Man showing off the healing of his wounds to Jericho. If he can do that, why does his body become so damaged later on?
- Removed some fire stunt shots with a less-than-convincing mask, and the shot where Jericho and Christine outrun an explosion.
- Removed the phony countdown drama during the climax. How exactly is Satan supposed to impregnate Christine in the three seconds before the so-called Millennium is over? By making it so that there is still plenty of time to “do the deed”, it makes Jericho’s sacrifice actually mean something, as it’s truly his only way to stop the End of Days.
- Also trimmed, cropped, flipped, and altered a bunch of continuity errors. I never noticed before how many this film has. I have, however, left in a lot of the “Action Arnold clichés” The film literally progresses due to a parade of clichés, coincidences, and just plain luck. (Not to mention, several intentional plotholes.) To remove them would (in my opinion) destroy any semblence of an actual storyline.
Fan edit details (please add here details about DVD contents as well as video and audio information): Anamorphic, and 5.1 audio. The DVD also features the teaser trailer, and a video tribute to the late, great Stan Winston. There’s probably an easter egg there too, but who can say for sure, hmmm?
Hardware and software information (what did you use to create your fan edit): Premiere, Photoshop, DVDLabPro.
Time needed for the edition: 1 month, on and off.
Persons involved: One.
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I absolutely love this edit. I’ve watched the original flick, I can’t count the times. Arnold is a guilty pleasure of mine, much like Dolph Lungdren. I would have kept in the morning hangover cure drink scene, though I’m not sure where it would go seeing where you started the flick. And it wasn’t until I reread the edit notes that I noticed the albino character was missing, so much for watching this movie a lot, the character didn’t leave an impression on me. Moving the possession scene after the attempted assassination is brilliant, I always felt there was something wrong with the priest trying to kill Satan, as if a bullet could kill him indeed.
Review by gorbash — July 15, 2008 @ 5:32 am
Arnold Schwarzenegger was the king of action movies in the 80’s and, with a few exceptions like Kindergarten Cop and Junior, made movies I loved. All that ended after the release of True Lies (his last great movie, but flawed in its own right). After that, we got nothing but mediocre Arnie like Eraser, The 6th Day and this 1999 supernatural action outing. The less said about Collateral Damage, the better. This always seemed like a movie brimming with potential that was unfortunately let down by poor writing and lazy direction. And, at this point in Arnie’s career, he seemed more focused on getting into politics than making a decent film. Thankfully, as always, Uncanny Antman has come through for us and trimmed the fat. You don’t realize how much you hate something in a movie until it’s missing. Case in point, that annoying Albino. I didn’t even remember he was in the movie so his absence wasn’t even noticed. Then I watched the easter egg footage of the stuff that UA cut out and remembered how pointless he was. As is usually the case in UA’s edits, it’s the little details that matter. Stuff such as the devil pissing oil and healing his own wounds have been excised. These bits never really bothered me before because I never really took the time to think about them. Now that they’re gone though, the movie just seems to work better. The two biggest missteps in the film have also, thankfully, been axed. The ridiculous step mother vs. Arnie fight has been completely removed. This scene was awful beyond belief and, as UA pointed out, it didn’t make any sense. And, most importantly, Arnie’s sacrifice now means something. He no longer kills himself with mere seconds left to go. I mean, they both still had their clothes on. How could they possibly consumate the act in three seconds?! Despite UA’s modesty, he really has made this a much better film. It’s no classic by any means but it’s much, much more enjoyable now. This guy should be writing, directing and editing his own films, not fixing the mistakes of Hollywood hacks. But, then again, we need someone to make all these movies work.
Review by Kolpitz — July 17, 2008 @ 11:48 pm
Thank you once again. I didn’t remember the movie very well, so I watched your edit, and really enjoyed it. The movie seemed better than what I had seen a few years ago… Great pace, almost no cheesiness, and very few scenes with that annoying Prison Break girl.
The, I watched the unedited film, and I realized how great your fan edit was : the original cut was almost unwatchable. The intro was way too long, some scenes with Arnie were boring to death, and we were told way too much stuff about Gabriel Byrne’s character. Moreover, the coninuity of the movie was terrible (we often jumped from a scene to another). And damn, those scenes with the albino and the cat were absolutely terrible…
As a whole, I think it is now a good Arnie movie, whereas it used to be mediocre. I would just have removed 3 more things : the scene where Arnold cries, the ones with the pope, and the crowd shots in Times Square. Good job though, I can’t wait to watch your next fan edit !
Review by bud — July 22, 2008 @ 12:42 am
Just finished watching this, and as usual this is technically perfect. I didn’t remember much about the original so I was pretty fresh going in. I have to say, I felt something was missing. It really seemed like the story never developed until the last act and then it developed, climaxed and resolved in a short time. I know you are limited by the available material, but cutting out the garbage made the story extremely week. You polished it very nicely, but it is still a turd.
Review by stplayahtn — July 22, 2008 @ 10:52 am
I’ll second what stplayahtn said. 5 of 5 for the edit (I noticed nothing technically flawed that could be attributed to Uncanny Antman), but the movie itself is a (generous) 3 stars- it’s a very phoned-in supernatural thriller. So, overall I give it a 4. Definite improvement over ‘End of Days’, but still just a so-so movie.
Review by jokersmailbag — August 14, 2008 @ 9:49 am
I can’t say that I remember too much of the original film, as one viewing was enough to leave on my shelf. Just having finished watching UA’s edit this was genuinely enjoyable and an extremely polished edit. Love the inclusion of the scenes you cut with comments why they were cut, and the tribute to the late great Stan Winston on the DVD extras is a nice touch!
Review by heavyg — August 15, 2008 @ 3:25 am
A very good fanedit. It is probably the very best thing that could be done to this disappointing movie. I was mildly entertained by the first half as there was still a lot of “cheese” to it, but the second half was really great for me. So in the end I really enjoyed the movie for the very first time. Thank you, Uncanny Antman for making this possible.
Review by boon23 — August 19, 2008 @ 8:56 pm
As many have said before me,the original movie End of Day was such a lackluster experience that I tried my very best to forget it ever was made.After seeing your edit I was left with the feeling of actually not hating the movie at all.It might very well be that you are blessed by God himself with an extraordinary gift of editing bad movies into actually good movies.As this edit stands today I have no problem adding this movie to my yearly Arnold Schwarzenegger movies session.Thanks!
If you are truly willing to test your skills as editor Mr. Uncanny Antman,try making Arnold Schwarzenegger`s turd Collateral Damage into a watchable movie,better yet ,edit it so it becomes a great movie.Can it be done?
Review by ColdNorway — August 25, 2008 @ 5:47 pm
Okay, let’s try this again:
for some reason, my post regarding dead links was taken off. The torrent links to Mininova and Pirate Bay have no seeders nor leachers, so it is impossible to torrent this edit. Demonoid is useless for those who aren’t already registered, because they are NOT accepting new registrations unless a referral from a current member is given. Is there anyone who can torrent this edit?
Review by Monroville — November 10, 2008 @ 10:26 pm
great editing ideas. this greatly improves on the story, pacing and revelation while also handling the supernatural elements MUCH better than the original. telling the film from jericho’s perspective makes each plot device more important to the story – and therefore the viewer.
UA is getting to be one of my favorite editors
5/5
Review by joebshmoe — February 13, 2009 @ 6:31 pm
Damn UA, could you at least do one edit that sucks!
Nicely done again… I knight you Sir Turd Polisher. Your work holds everyone to a higher standard and will only make this sight that much greater. I gave it 9 of out 10. Only because I saw some a couple interlacing issues with the video that could have been just my dvd burn or that I watch on my 50in. Regardless, excellent job.
Review by juk — March 16, 2009 @ 5:27 pm
OK, so I still couldn’t really enjoy it, because I simply dislike the film too much for it to be saved. But you have made it watchable, which is an impressive feat. Great editing, and as always, a keen eye for what should stay and what should go.
Review by CasmirRadon — November 1, 2009 @ 9:20 pm
It did not work too well for me. Especially towards the ending it became weaker and it seemed several times to me like parts were missing. I cannot understand the hype, yet I also cannot understand the Twilight hype, so it seems it’s in the end just a taste thing.
Review by r8s8fr8 — November 27, 2009 @ 8:19 pm
I can’t say that I remember the original too much, but, after watching this I can tell that it’s an improvement because this was actually pretty decent. The movie no longer sucks, so that’s a plus. Good job. I can see how much drama there was for Arnold’s character. Not much I can say is bad about it. And I didn’t notice any bad cuts or anything.
Review by asocialjester — June 12, 2010 @ 8:33 pm
Great job Uncanny!! Another improvement!
Review by T-HOPE — July 23, 2010 @ 10:35 am